Marriage advocates have a new and powerful ally in corporate America.
One by one, national corporations like Microsoft, Starbucks, Boeing and Google are wading into the once-risky business of taking a position supporting marriage equality in states across the country.

A week after President Barack Obama announced his support for marriage equality, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer sat down with former Secretary of State Colin Powell who affirmed the president’s position saying “as I’ve thought about gay marriage, I know a lot of friends who are individually gay but are in partnerships with loved ones. And they are stable a family as my family is. And they raise children. And so I don’t see any reason not to say that they should be able to get married under the laws of their state or the laws of the country, however that turns out – it seems to be the laws of the state.”